This story is from June 30, 2020

Widespread rain, thunderstorms likely till July 2 in Bihar: IMD

Widespread rain, thunderstorms likely till July 2 in Bihar: IMD
A man enjoys Patna’s cloudy weather on Monday
PATNA: Light to moderate rainfall occurred across the state along with heavy rainfall at a few places for the fifth consecutive day on Monday and, according to weathermen, the monsoon showers will continue with largely the same intensity till July 2.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) stated in its evening bulletin on Monday that fairly widespread rainfall is excepted across Bihar over the next five days.
The IMD also forecast isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall in Bihar. Besides, thunderstorm accompanied by lightning and gusty winds 30-40 Km per hour is likely at a few places in the state.
The Patna Meteorological Centre has also issued a yellow warning for thunderstorm with lightning in all 38 districts and heavy rain likely at one or two places in many districts till July 2. The yellow warning stipulates the authorities to be watchful for extreme weather conditions.
The daily weather bulletin issued by the Patna Meteorological Centre (PMC) on Monday stated that light to moderate rainfall occurred at most places over north- east, north-central and south-east parts of Bihar over the last 24 hours. Similar intensity of showers were witnessed at many places over north- west and few places over south-west and south-central parts of Bihar. Very heavy rainfall also occurred at one or two places over north- central part of the state.
Saulighat in Madhubani received the highest amount of rainfall at 135.5mm, followed by Rewaghat in Muzaffarpur (118.4mm), Vaishali (118.2mm), Tribeniganj in Supaul (115mm), Bhimnagar (100mm), and Khagaria, Parbatta, Sahebpur Kanal, Gogri, Kamtaul and Birpur- receiving 90mm each.
Monsoon has been active over Bihar for the past four days and IMD has forecast fairly widespread to widespread showers over the next five days as well. The IMD attributed the expected showers to favourable position of monsoon trough line along with a cyclonic circulation of east Uttar Pradesh and neighbourhood.

Sanjay Kumar, a meteorologist at the PMC said the trough line is a very important factor in the occurrence of south-west monsoon rainfall. “The areas closer to the trough line— an elongated low pressure area— are likely to receive more rainfall,” he said, adding, moisture incursion from the cyclonic circulation over East UP will also support the showers.
Meteorologists also claimed that Bihar received 51% more rainfall than the state’s average between June 1 and 29. “Most places in the state received fairly good showers this month,” said Sandeep Kumar, meteorologist at PMC.
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